Outcasts 1.08.
The chasm between what they thought they’d been making and what I saw was pretty obvious in this final episode, really. As I was watching it on iPlayer, I could pause it, and did, repeatedly, to bellow ‘SERIOUSLY?’ at the screen. Like when there was this whole discussion over whether Jack is stupid. YES, OF COURSE HE IS UNLESS IF STUPID HAS CHANGED ITS MEANING. So is Julius - cf ignoring the possibility that Stella et al were talking about an imminent danger that wasn’t the ACs in his quest for power and indeed much of his handling of Stella - but JACK IS MORE STUPID. Also, he's cowardly.
Basically, I was all on the host force’s side, if for nothing else because Stella named them that (Host Force, the rejected title for a video game coming soon to a bargain bin near you). Well, I was until they started channelling better super-powered aliens from sci-fi shows past and claimed the humans were interesting. I watched all episodes, and the interesting thing was who was going to do a stupid thing next.
Ah, Fleur, you were the best of them, and so there was the IRONY of your not being 'one of them' (Tate being her kind-of daddy was mildly interesting, or it would be if he weren’t a TERRIBLE scientist. He was an okay politician, maybe, but as the Council was so underused on screen that I spent their big meeting marvelling at the skills of whoever arranged for them to have water in their emergency censure meeting; I mean, why didn’t we SEE the council member for Justice?).
The handling of Jack-Fleur-Cass was juvenile, I expended quite a few SERIOUSLYs after Cass went to "have words" with Jack for having a one night stand with Fleur, because....SERIOUSLY? Things got better (TEENAGERS) after the Omega bombshell and they did some running, but even though this ep may have passed the Bechdel test (I liked the Fleur-Lilly convo) the way women have been written - and the old-fashioned way that men view them - has been failtastic.
And I kept getting annoyed with how stuff was communicated. I don’t see why they would be a step behind our technology in that regard.
Well, why did I watch it then? Because I’m a completist and I knew it was a short run. I liked most of the actors, the dialogue and what their characters were doing wasn’t their fault and the art and production people should give themselves a pat on the back (the FX of the virus falling were a bit ropey) but THE SCRIPT. Urgh. See icon.
In other news, I have a cold. Bleurgh.
Basically, I was all on the host force’s side, if for nothing else because Stella named them that (Host Force, the rejected title for a video game coming soon to a bargain bin near you). Well, I was until they started channelling better super-powered aliens from sci-fi shows past and claimed the humans were interesting. I watched all episodes, and the interesting thing was who was going to do a stupid thing next.
Ah, Fleur, you were the best of them, and so there was the IRONY of your not being 'one of them' (Tate being her kind-of daddy was mildly interesting, or it would be if he weren’t a TERRIBLE scientist. He was an okay politician, maybe, but as the Council was so underused on screen that I spent their big meeting marvelling at the skills of whoever arranged for them to have water in their emergency censure meeting; I mean, why didn’t we SEE the council member for Justice?).
The handling of Jack-Fleur-Cass was juvenile, I expended quite a few SERIOUSLYs after Cass went to "have words" with Jack for having a one night stand with Fleur, because....SERIOUSLY? Things got better (TEENAGERS) after the Omega bombshell and they did some running, but even though this ep may have passed the Bechdel test (I liked the Fleur-Lilly convo) the way women have been written - and the old-fashioned way that men view them - has been failtastic.
And I kept getting annoyed with how stuff was communicated. I don’t see why they would be a step behind our technology in that regard.
Well, why did I watch it then? Because I’m a completist and I knew it was a short run. I liked most of the actors, the dialogue and what their characters were doing wasn’t their fault and the art and production people should give themselves a pat on the back (the FX of the virus falling were a bit ropey) but THE SCRIPT. Urgh. See icon.
In other news, I have a cold. Bleurgh.